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Terms and Conditions for use of the GroupSpaces Website
Last Updated: 16th February 2014
Thank you for using GroupSpaces ("GroupSpaces", "we" or "us")! GroupSpaces provides a software platform (the "GroupSpaces Platform") that enables you to create, join or browse Groups (as defined below) built on the GroupSpaces Platform. We also provide a set of services that will enhance your experience as a member of Groups on the GroupSpaces Platform.
These Terms of Service contain general terms that apply to you as a user of the GroupSpaces Platform, along with additional terms that may apply to you as a Group Owner (as defined below) if you decide to create your own Group. When using the GroupSpaces Platform, you will also be subject to the GroupSpaces Privacy Policy.
These Terms of Service (the "Terms of Service" or "Agreement") govern your use of the GroupSpaces Platform and is a legal contract between you and GroupSpaces.
By registering with us or using or browsing the GroupSpaces Platform, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Agreement. If you do not agree to these terms, you can stop using the GroupSpaces Platform at any time.
The GroupSpaces Platform is not directed to children younger than 13 and is offered only to users 13 years of age or older. If you are under 13 years old, please do not use the GroupSpaces Platform. Any person who provides their personal information through the GroupSpaces Platform represents to us that they are 13 years of age or older.
You represent that you are fully able and competent to enter into the terms, conditions, obligations, representations and warranties set forth in these Terms of Service. If you are using or creating a Group on the GroupSpaces Platform as a representative of a company or legal entity, (i) you represent that you have the authority to enter into this Agreement on behalf of that company or entity, and (ii) you agree that the terms "you" and "your" in this Agreement refers to your company or legal entity.
GroupSpaces.com is a site operated by GroupSpaces Limited. We are registered in England and Wales under company number 6427791 and have our registered office at Suite 17861, Lower Ground Floor, 145-157 St John Street, London EC1V 4PW.
1. Definitions
"Content" means (i) any work of authorship in a Group, including, comments, recommendations, forums, photos, videos, music, sounds, images, text, files, listings, logos, trademarks, postings, messages, tags and other content added to or submitted with any of the foregoing; or (ii) other materials posted on or transmitted through any Group or the GroupSpaces Platform.
"GroupSpaces Account" is an account you create with GroupSpaces which includes a name, email address, and password.
"GroupSpaces Users" are Users who complete a registration process with GroupSpaces and obtain a GroupSpaces Account.
"GroupSpaces Member Data" is data collected from Users by GroupSpaces, including the data collected for the GroupSpaces Account and any data provided in Your GroupSpaces Profile (as defined below). GroupSpaces Member Data does not include Group Member Data.
"GroupSpaces Member Services" are the services provided by GroupSpaces to Group Members. GroupSpaces Member Services include, but are not limited to Group Member registration, Group Member sign in and authentication, a message centre, contact management, and a set of Group membership management services, including a listing of the Groups to which a particular Group Member belongs. GroupSpaces Member Services do not include any services that Group Managers provide to their Group Members.
"GroupSpaces Group Manager Services" are the services GroupSpaces provides to Group Managers. GroupSpaces Group Manager Services include, but are not limited to a Group Manager's own Group application, Group Member registration and authentication service, Group Member account management, Group management and security applications, internal and external application program interfaces ("APIs"), Javascript-compatible APIs, a semi-structured content store, and Group display, management, and search services.
"GroupSpaces Profile" means information that, if you are a GroupSpaces Member, you have provided to GroupSpaces that is aggregated by GroupSpaces into a master profile. Your GroupSpaces Profile is separate from any profile that you create (or is created on your behalf) on a particular Group ("My Profile").
"GroupSpaces Technology" means the past, present and future content of the GroupSpaces Platform, including all software in any format (including the Platform Code and Group Code), hardware, products, processes, algorithms, user interfaces, know-how, techniques, organization, designs, text, images, photographs, illustrations, audio or video material, artwork, graphic material, podcasts, advertising copy, databases, proprietary information, all copyrightable or otherwise legally protectable elements of the GroupSpaces Platform and all other tangible or intangible materials related to, displayed, performed or distributed on the GroupSpaces Platform and the GroupSpaces Platform itself, including, the selection, sequence, and "look and feel" and arrangement of items on the GroupSpaces Platform, and all GroupSpaces Marks (as defined below), domain names, patents, and other intellectual property. GroupSpaces Technology does not include Your Content or Your Code.
"Members" means both Group Members and GroupSpaces Members.
"Group Code" means the software code (i.e., HTML, Javascript, or PHP code) used to provide the functionality for a Group that is interpreted by the Platform Code (as defined below). Group Code consists of GroupSpaces proprietary code, Third Party Software (as defined below), and may also consist of Your Code (as defined below), as applicable, but expressly excludes Platform Code.
"Group Manager" is a GroupSpaces Member who has management access to one or more Groups on the GroupSpaces Platform. A Group Manager is by definition a Group Member of each of his or her Groups.
"Registered Group Members" are GroupSpaces Members who have also registered with a particular Group on the GroupSpaces Platform using their GroupSpaces Account.
"Group Member Data" means data provided by or collected from a Group Member by a Group Manager for a particular Group, such as profile data, including certain items of registration information (e.g. email addresses), answers to Group profile questions, forum posts, and statistical information about Content contributed. Group Member Data does not include the GroupSpaces Account or any GroupSpaces Member Data.
"Platform Code" means the proprietary portion of the GroupSpaces Platform that is used to interpret the Group Code and other services available on the GroupSpaces Platform.
"Premium Services" are services provided to Group Managers for a fee.
"Groups" consist of Group Code and other Content and are web applications running on top of the GroupSpaces Platform. Groups are created by Group Managers and are provided for Group Members of that Group to interact and connect with other Group Members. Gropu features may include Group Member profiles, invitations, discussion forums, photo sharing, video sharing, file sharing, events, latest activity streams, RSS feeds and pages, among others. If you are a Group Manager, "Your Group" is a Group operated by you on the GroupSpaces Platform.
"Third Party Software" means software that is licensed to you by third parties.
"Third Party Payment Providers" refers to third party software for collecting payments online. As of February 16th 2014 the third party payment provider that can be used with GroupSpaces is PayPal.
"Users" are all end users of the GroupSpaces Platform, and include you, any unregistered users, all GroupSpaces Members, all Group Members, and all Group Managers.
"VAT" means value added tax chargeable under English law for the time being and any similar additional tax.
"Your Code" means any script, code, or other computer software uploaded by you to the GroupSpaces Platform.
"Your Content" is any Content that you submit to a Group or the GroupSpaces Platform, either as a GroupSpaces Member, Group Member or Group Manager (all as defined). If you are a Group Manager, Your Content includes the name, logo, trademark, brand features and other Content that you (and not the Group Members of Your Group(s) make available). Content does not include Group Code or Platform Code.
"Your GroupSpaces Profile" is a GroupSpaces Profile created by you on the GroupSpaces Platform.
"Your Group Members" are Users who have been added to or registered with Your Group.
2. Chargeable Services and Payment
This section refers to chargeable GroupSpaces group manager services only. Group members who are not group managers will not be charged by GroupSpaces for use of the GroupSpaces website and technology. Any charges that a group manager may decide to make to group members such as event tickets, membership dues or other costs associated with membership of the group are not covered by sections 2.1-2.4 below.
2.1 Basic Pricing and Premium Services
Basic prices for Premium Services are described at http://groupspaces.com/c/pricing and may be subject to change from time to time. GroupSpaces charges in GBP, prices given in other currencies are approximate only.
2.2 Payment Generally
You are responsible for paying all fees and applicable taxes associated with the Premium Services in a timely manner with a valid payment method. You authorize GroupSpaces to charge your credit card, debit card, or PayPal account (herein "Payment Method") for all charges to your accounts with GroupSpaces. Your Payment Method will be charged the current fee for the Premium Services on a monthly basis unless you have selected to pay in yearly or biannual intervals. Any and all payments are non-refundable.
You acknowledge and agree that any credit card, debit card, and related billing and payment information that you provide to GroupSpaces may be shared by GroupSpaces with companies who work on GroupSpaces' behalf, such as payment processors and/or credit agencies, solely for the purpose of checking credit, effecting payment to GroupSpaces and servicing your account. Any fees charged to your account are non-refundable.
2.3 Cancellation Policy
You may elect to delete your Group at any time for any reason or for no reason by contacting us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
All Group Member Data relating to a deleted Group, as well as any content made available in or on the applicable Group, will no longer be accessible by means of the GroupSpaces Platform following the effective date of deletion. Please be advised that none of the content posted in or on your Group on or before the effective date of deletion will be able to be accessed or recovered by you or any Members once your Group is deleted. GroupSpaces shall have no obligation or liability to you with respect to the deletion or loss of any such Group Member Data.
If you delete your Group before the end of the then-current paid-up month, your cancellation will take effect immediately and you will not receive a refund or credit for the unused portion of such month.
You acknowledge and agree that the deletion of your Group(s) and related cancellation of your payment plan(s) and service(s) offered by GroupSpaces hereunder is your sole right and exclusive remedy with respect to any dispute that you may have with GroupSpaces (or any of its affiliates) that relate in any manner to the GroupSpaces Platform, including, without limitation, any dispute arising from or in connection with
i. the Terms of Service or any of GroupSpaces' policies, rules, regulations, or guidelines relating to the GroupSpaces Platform;
ii. your ability or inability to access and/or use the GroupSpaces Platform;
iii. the fees and related charges, taxes, duties, billing methods or procedures, or any changes with respect to any of the foregoing; and
iv. the content (including, without limitation, any related data and information) displayed or otherwise made available as part of or otherwise in connection with the GroupSpaces Platform.
2.4 Taxes
All fees for Premium Services are inclusive of VAT.
2.5 Payment Processing
GroupSpaces enables Groups to collect payments for membership dues, event tickets, donations and other purposes, using third-party payment providers to process these payments. These payments are subject to the third-party payment provider's Terms of Use. GroupSpaces is not affiliated with any third party payment provider, and neither is the agent or employee of the other, and neither is responsible in any way for the actions or performance (or lack thereof) of the other. The same is true with respect to GroupSpaces on the one hand and GroupSpaces Group Managers and their Group Members on the other hand. To the extent that the GroupSpaces Platform is rendered in conjunction with any other provider of services, the same shall also be true, namely that to the extent that a user of the GroupSpaces Platform hereunder does so in conjunction with the services of another service provider, such user will be subject to the other service provider's terms of service, and neither GroupSpaces or the other service provider will be considered the agent or employee of the other, and neither will be responsible in any way for the performance (or lack thereof) of the other. The terms of this Terms of Service shall not in any way supersede the terms of any other service provider, nor shall the terms of service of any other service provider supersede the terms of this Terms of Service with respect to the GroupSpaces Platform.
You will collect all monies directly and by signing up for and using the GroupSpaces Platform, you agree to submit payment to GroupSpaces for service charges owed upon receipt of the Invoice (sent monthly for service charges incurred in the previous month). For more information: http://help.groupspaces.com/customer/portal/articles/8803-payments
You accept the responsibility to provide refunds to Users who pay you through the GroupSpaces Platform at your own discretion. GroupSpaces will not be held liable for refunds or lack thereof during use of third-party payment providers.
3. Your Code and Licenses to Your Code
You own Your Code. GroupSpaces does not claim any ownership rights in Your Code. You may only upload Your Code to the GroupSpaces Platform, for use on Your Group, provided that Your Code complies with the terms of this Agreement.
You hereby grant GroupSpaces a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, transferable, irrevocable, sublicenseable, royalty-free right and license to access, use, reproduce, store, modify, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform and create derivative works of Your Code (a) for the purpose of operating and making Your Group available on the GroupSpaces Platform and in all current and future media in which the GroupSpaces Platform may now or hereafter be distributed or transmitted; or (b) for our internal business purposes. Additionally, you hereby grant GroupSpaces a non-exclusive, world-wide, transferable, irrevocable, sublicenseable royalty-free right and license to continue using, reproducing, archiving, caching, creating derivative works, publicly displaying and performing in perpetuity, any of Your Code that is incorporated into the GroupSpaces Platform, provided that GroupSpaces shall not use or distribute Your Code on a stand alone basis. The foregoing license does not limit GroupSpaces' rights under any third party or open source license in which Your Code is licensed.
You are responsible for making sure that you have all rights in Your Code you upload or use and all rights that are necessary for you to grant the foregoing licenses to Your Code. You are solely responsible for ensuring that Your Code is compatible with any GroupSpaces Technology. GroupSpaces disclaims any liability or responsibility for any unauthorized use of Your Code by third parties or Users of Your Group and is not responsible for protecting Your Code.
4. Your Content and Licenses to Your Content
GroupSpaces does not claim any ownership rights in Your Content. The Content that you upload to any Group needs to comply with the terms of this Agreement.
You hereby grant GroupSpaces, during the course of your usage of the GroupSpaces Platform, a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable and transferable right and license to (i) use, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform and publicly display Your Content (a) for the sole purpose of operating and making Your Content available on the GroupSpaces Platform and in all current and future media in which the GroupSpaces Platform may now or hereafter be distributed or transmitted or (b) for our internal business purposes; and (ii) disclose metrics regarding Your Content on an aggregated basis for advertising, marketing and business development purposes. If you wish to grant Users or the general public additional licenses to Your Content, please include the license terms with Your Content. Without limiting the foregoing, GroupSpaces reserves the right to retain copies of Content for archival purposes after termination of the Agreement.
You hereby agree that if Your Content is removed from any Group due to a violation of these Terms, GroupSpaces shall have the right to use, reproduce and exploit Your Content in any manner without restriction, including in response to any court order order, to assist government enforcement agencies or otherwise required by law and to protect the rights, property or safety of GroupSpaces, any individual, or the general public.
You are responsible for making sure that you have all rights in Your Content, including the rights necessary for you to grant the foregoing licenses to Your Content.
In addition to the rights, licenses and privileges referred to above, you agree that GroupSpaces, in its sole discretion, may use and refer to your trademarks, service marks, trade names, image, character, logos, domain names and other distinctive brand features or identification in marketing materials, financial reports, presentations, website materials, customer lists and other media now known or hereafter discovered in connection with the marketing, advertising and promotion of the GroupSpaces Platform, and any products, goods, features, capabilities and/or services associated with the GroupSpaces Platform.
As a Group Manager or Group Member you acknowledge that GroupSpaces and its designees reserve the right, but shall have no obligation, to pre-screen, filter, remove, refuse to accept, post, display, or transmit any Content through or on any Group or the GroupSpaces Platform in whole or in part at any time for any reason or no reason with or without notice and with no liability of any kind.
If a Group is removed from the GroupSpaces Platform, the Content associated with that Group may also be deleted at the discretion of the Group Managers of that Group or GroupSpaces.
5. Licenses From GroupSpaces
5.1 License to GroupSpaces Platform
During and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, GroupSpaces hereby grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, freely revocable license to access and use the GroupSpaces Platform solely to enable your use of the GroupSpaces Member Services and GroupSpaces Group Manager Services. For clarity, aside from the foregoing limited license, you acknowledge that you shall acquire no rights in the Platform Code or Group Code.
You agree that, as between you and GroupSpaces, all the intellectual property rights in the GroupSpaces Platform, which does not include Your Content or Your Code, are owned by GroupSpaces or its licensors.
5.2 License Restrictions
Except as expressly permitted under this Agreement, you agree not to, nor will you allow any third party (whether or not for your benefit) to:
- Run, rent, lease, loan, or sell access to the GroupSpaces Platform or the GroupSpaces Technology;
- Decompile or reverse engineer or attempt to access the source code of the software underlying the GroupSpaces Platform or GroupSpaces Technology;
- Copy, archive, store, reproduce, rearrange, modify, adapt, download, upload, create derivate works from, display, perform, publish, distribute, redistribute or disseminate any GroupSpaces Technology;
- Access the GroupSpaces Platform to build a product using similar ideas, features, functions, interface or graphics of the GroupSpaces Platform;
- Access (or attempt to access) any service on the GroupSpaces Platform by any means other than as permitted in these Terms of Service;
- Access the GroupSpaces Platform to upload Your Code or Your Content to cause a breach of security to the GroupSpaces Platform or any Group or interfere with the proper working of the GroupSpaces Platform or prevent others from using the GroupSpaces Platform;
- Delete the copyright and other proprietary rights notices on the GroupSpaces Platform.
6. GroupSpaces Trademarks and Legal Notices
GroupSpaces trademarks, logos, images, service marks, trade names and other distinctive branding features used on the GroupSpaces Platform "GroupSpaces Marks" are the trademarks of GroupSpaces and may not be used without permission. GroupSpaces is not granting you a license under any intellectual property right to the GroupSpaces Marks. Other trademarks, logos, and trade names that may appear on the GroupSpaces Platform are the property of their respective owners.
7. GroupSpaces Ownership Rights
You agree that, as between you and GroupSpaces, GroupSpaces owns all right, title and interest, including, all intellectual property rights, in and to the GroupSpaces Technology. Additionally, there are two types of data provided by or collected from Group Members – Group Member Data and GroupSpaces Member Data. If you are a Group Manager, you agree that, as between GroupSpaces and you, GroupSpaces owns all right, title and interest, including, all intellectual property rights, in and to the GroupSpaces Member Data. You shall not acquire any right, title or interest therein, except for the limited rights expressly set forth in this Agreement. Any rights not expressly granted herein, are reserved to GroupSpaces. You agree to abide by all copyright notices, information, or restrictions contained in any part of the GroupSpaces Platform. You must not alter, delete, or conceal any copyright, trademark, patent, or other notices contained on the GroupSpaces Platform, including notices on any GroupSpaces Technology you download, transmit, display, print or reproduce from or using the GroupSpaces Platform.
8. Advertising and Promotion for Group Managers
GroupSpaces reserves the right to include promotional links on Your Group(s), unless you pay the applicable Premium Service fees to remove promotional links.
Subject to section 21 below, you agree that GroupSpaces will not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any interactions or dealings with advertisers or as the result of the presence of such advertisers on Your Group.
9. Third Party Content and Hyperlinks to Third Party Sites
Content from other Members or advertisers, is made available to you through Groups ("Third Party Content") on the GroupSpaces Platform. The inclusion of Third Party Content on the GroupSpaces Platform does not imply our affiliation or endorsement of such Third Party Content. Because we do not control Third Party Content, you agree that we are not responsible for any such Third Party Content, including the accuracy, integrity, quality, legality, usefulness, safety or intellectual property rights of or relating to such Third Party Content, it is the sole responsibility of the person from which such Third Party Content originated, and GroupSpaces has no obligation to monitor such Third Party Content. You are solely responsible (and assume all liability and risk) for determining whether or not such Third Party Content is appropriate or acceptable to you. You understand that by using the GroupSpaces Platform you may be exposed to Third Party Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable, and that you use the GroupSpaces Platform at your own risk.
Additionally, GroupSpaces or third parties may provide hyperlinks on Groups, or any other form of link or redirection of your connection to other sites ("Third Party Sites"). These Third Party Sites are in no way integrated into the GroupSpaces Platform and the inclusion of any link on a Group does not imply GroupSpaces' affiliation or endorsement of the linked site, their business practices (including their privacy policies) or any information therein. GroupSpaces expressly disclaims responsibility for, the accuracy, quality, legality, nature, availability or reliability of Third Party Sites linked to by or through the GroupSpaces Platform. Access and use of Third Party Sites, including the information, material, products, and services on Third Party Sites or available through Third Party Sites, is solely at your own risk.
10. Representations and Warranties.
You hereby represent and warrant to GroupSpaces that: (a) you will comply with all applicable national and international laws and regulations in connection with your use of the GroupSpaces Platform including your promotional or other activities off the GroupSpaces Platform that relate to Your Group; (b) you have the right to grant to GroupSpaces the rights granted herein and you own or have all necessary rights, title and interest in and to Your Code and Your Content; (c) Your Code and Your Content does not and will not (i) infringe, violate or misappropriate any third-party right, including any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, moral rights, privacy rights, rights of publicity, or any other intellectual property or proprietary right, or (ii) slander, defame, libel, or invade the right of privacy, publicity or other property rights of any person; and (d) none of Your Code, Your Content or Your Group contains any viruses, Trojan horses, trap doors, back doors, Easter eggs, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer programming routines that may potentially damage or interfere with the GroupSpaces Platform, or intercept or expropriate any system data or personal information from the GroupSpaces Platform.
11. Acceptable Use and Conduct
You are solely responsible for your conduct, Your Groups, Your Code, and Your Content on the GroupSpaces Platform. We want to keep the Groups on GroupSpaces safe and fun for everyone and the use of the GroupSpaces Platform for unlawful or harmful activities is not allowed. In defining "safe and fun," you specifically agree that:
The Content you post, email or make available to Users must:
- Be accurate (where it states facts);
- Be genuinely held (where it states opinions);
- Comply with all applicable law in the United Kingdom and in any country from which it is posted.
You will not post, email or make available any Content to Users or use the GroupSpaces Platform:
- In a manner that infringes, violates or misappropriates any third party's intellectual property rights or other proprietary rights or contractual rights;
- In a manner that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment;
- To engage in spamming, "chain letters," "pyramid schemes", advertisement of illegal or controlled products or services, or other advertising or marketing activities that violate these Terms of Service, any applicable laws, regulations or generally-accepted advertising industry guidelines, including to other Users whether on or off the GroupSpaces Platform in connection with Your Group;
- In a manner that is misleading, deceptive or fraudulent or otherwise illegal or promotes illegal activities, including engaging in phishing or otherwise obtaining financial or other personal information in a misleading manner or for fraudulent or misleading purposes;
- In a manner that is libelous or defamatory, or in a way that is otherwise threatening, abusive, violent, harassing, malicious or harmful to any person or entity, or invasive of another's privacy;
- In a manner that is harmful to minors in any way;
- In a manner that is hateful or discriminatory based on race, color, sex, religion, nationality, ethnic or national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or age or is otherwise objectionable, as reasonably determined by GroupSpaces;
- To impersonate a GroupSpaces employee, or any other person, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person or entity, or to obtain access to a Group or the GroupSpaces Platform without authorization;
- To interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the GroupSpaces Platform or prevent others from using the GroupSpaces Platform, or in a manner that disrupts the normal flow of dialogue with an excessive number of messages (flooding attack) to the GroupSpaces Platform, or that otherwise negatively affects other persons' ability to use the GroupSpaces Platform;
- To facilitate the unlawful distribution of copyrighted content;
- In a manner that includes personal or identifying information about another person without that person's consent;
- In a manner that employs misleading email or IP addresses, or forged headers or otherwise manipulated identifiers in order to disguise the origin of Content transmitted through the GroupSpaces Platform or to Users; and
- In a manner that constitutes or contains any form of advertising or solicitation if (1) posted in Your Content; or (2) emailed to Users who have requested not to be contacted about other services, products or commercial interests.
Additionally, you agree not to:
- "Stalk" or otherwise harass anyone;
- Collect, use or disclose data, including personal information, about other Users without their consent or for unlawful purposes or in violation of applicable law or regulations;
- Request, solicit or otherwise obtain access to usernames, passwords or other authentication credentials from any Member of the GroupSpaces Platform, including GroupSpaces Account passwords from a Group Manager, or to proxy authentication credentials for any Member of the GroupSpaces Platform for the purposes of automating logins to the GroupSpaces Platform;
- Use any profanity or the description or name of any illegal activity in the name of Your Group;
- Use the name "GroupSpaces" as any part of the name of Your Group;
- Post any Content containing child pornography to any Group;
- Post any Content that GroupSpaces determines, in its sole discretion, depicts or contains rape, extreme violence, murder, bestiality, incest, or other similar content;
- Post any Content that GroupSpaces determines, in its sole discretion, constitutes pornography or is adult in nature;
- Post irrelevant Content, repeatedly post the same or similar Content or otherwise impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on GroupSpaces' infrastructure;
- Attempt to gain unauthorized access to GroupSpaces' computer systems or engage in any activity that disrupts, diminishes the quality of, interferes with the performance of, or impairs the functionality of, the GroupSpaces Platform; and
- Develop, invoke, or utilize any code to disrupt, diminish the quality of, interfere with the performance of, or impair the functionality of the GroupSpaces Platform.
You agree not to authorize or encourage any third party to use the GroupSpaces Platform or any of Your Groups (and Your Groups will not be designed) to facilitate any of the foregoing prohibited conduct. You also agree to immediately notify GroupSpaces in the event of an actual or threatened claim that you have violated any of the covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement.
12. Viruses, Hacking and Other Offences
You must not misuse the GroupSpaces Platform by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the GroupSpaces Platform, the server on which the GroupSpaces Platform is stored or any server, computer or database connected to the GroupSpaces Platform. You must not attack the GroupSpaces Platform via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use the GroupSpaces Platform will cease immediately.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of the GroupSpaces Platform or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
13. GroupSpaces' Relationship with Users
You acknowledge that GroupSpaces may terminate your GroupSpaces Account (which is separate from a Group Manager's right to terminate your membership), and remove your Content and Group Member Data, as well as disable your access to any and all Groups and the GroupSpaces Platform, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. If you are a Group Member, you acknowledge that nothing in any agreement (or related policies) you may be subject to with any Group Manager or other party will alter, impair, supersede, amend or otherwise affect in any way any terms of this Agreement or GroupSpaces' Privacy Policy.
14. Intellectual Property Complaints
GroupSpaces is committed to the protection of intellectual property rights of third parties. Accordingly, rights owners concerned because they have found Content on the GroupSpaces Platform for which they have not given permission should contact us at email@example.com stating the following:
- Their contact details;
- The location of the Content on the GroupSpaces Platform;
- An explanation of why the Content should not be on the GroupSpaces Platform; and
- A statement that they are the rights owner or authorized to act for the rights owner.
The process for handling requests to remove non-permitted Content from the GroupSpaces Platform is as follows:
- GroupSpaces will contact those people submitting complaints as soon as reasonably possible;
- Where it is established that there is a copyright infringement GroupSpaces will remove the notified Content from the GroupSpaces Platform as soon as reasonably possible;
- People submitting complaints will be asked to sign a form stating that they are the rights owner or their representative and why the Content should be removed.
15. Group Member Data
Through our GroupSpaces Member Services, GroupSpaces collects GroupSpaces Member Data from Your Group Members and general information about a User's use of Your Group(s). If you are a Group Manager, you agree that your access to this GroupSpaces Member Data (including the email addresses provided by Group Members during the GroupSpaces Account registration process) as part of the management controls of Your Group(s) is subject to the GroupSpaces Privacy Policy. In addition, subject to this Agreement, you may collect Group Member Data from Your Group Members; if you do so, you hereby agree that such Group Member Data shall not be used in a manner inconsistent with, or that causes GroupSpaces to violate GroupSpaces' Privacy Policy.
Member privacy is important to us. Therefore, if you are a Group Manager, you hereby agree that your use and disclosure of Group Member Data and any GroupSpaces Member Data shall: (a) comply with the GroupSpaces Privacy Policy; and (b) be reasonably protective of each Group Member's rights and in no event shall you observe standards of privacy and confidentiality in connection with the use and disclosure of GroupSpaces Member Data or Group Member Data that are less stringent than the standards set forth in the GroupSpaces Privacy Policy.
You must clearly communicate on Your Group that Your Group uses GroupSpaces Account authentication (including, on each page on Your Group on which information is collected for purposes of GroupSpaces Account authentication) and that each of Your Group Members will be sharing the data they provide to you with GroupSpaces. This is for clarity and to ensure Your Group Members are aware of this relationship.
Subject to this Agreement and each Group Member's rights, all Group Member Data shall be the property of the applicable Group Managers. That being said, GroupSpaces needs to run Your Group on the GroupSpaces Platform. To this end, as a Group Manager, you hereby grant GroupSpaces a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, sublicenseable, fully paid-up, royalty-free right and license to (i) use, reproduce, store, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform and display the Group Member Data on or through the GroupSpaces Platform and in all current and future media in which the GroupSpaces Platform may be distributed; (ii) use and disclose the Group Member Data and related metrics in an aggregate or other non-personally identifiable manner (including, for use in targeting advertising in a non-personally identifiable manner through and in connection with the GroupSpaces Platform; and (iii) use Group Member Data for other purposes permitted by the GroupSpaces Privacy Policy.
You acknowledge that GroupSpaces may receive requests from Users or persons authorized to act on behalf of such Users to modify or delete personally identifiable information relating to such Users on Your Group. Accordingly, you agree that, within 24 hours of any email request by GroupSpaces, you will: (a) delete all Group Member Data and other personally identifiable information in your possession or control relating to a particular User as specified by GroupSpaces; and (b) confirm such deletion in email notice to GroupSpaces.
GroupSpaces is not required to keep back-up copies of Group Member Data on the GroupSpaces Platform once the Group or Group Member Data is deleted.
16. Your Group
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Headbanging caused brain bleed in Motorhead fan
LONDON – It may not destroy your soul, but it turns out heavy metal music can be hazardous to your brain. At least in some rare cases.
German doctors say they have treated a Motorhead fan whose headbanging habit ultimately led to a brain injury, but that the risk to metal fans in general is so small they don't need to give up the shaking.
Last January, doctors at Hannover Medical School saw a 50-year-old man who complained of constant, worsening headaches. The patient, who was not identified, had no history of head injuries or substance abuse problems but said he had been headbanging regularly for years — most recently at a Motorhead concert he attended with his son.
After a scan, doctors discovered their patient had a brain bleed and needed a hole drilled into his brain to drain the blood. The patient's headaches soon disappeared. In a follow-up scan, the doctors saw he had a benign cyst which might have made the metal aficionado more vulnerable to a brain injury.
"We are not against headbanging," said Dr. Ariyan Pirayesh Islamian, one of the doctors who treated the man. "The risk of injury is very, very low. But I think if (our patient) had (gone) to a classical concert, this would not have happened."
Islamian said the violent shaking of the head in headbanging can sometimes be enough to cause damage as the brain bumps up against the skull and noted a handful of previous injuries, also in heavy metal fans. The latest case was described in a report published online Friday in the journal Lancet.
Motorhead is a British metal band known for helping create the "speed metal" genre, which inspires extremely fast headbanging. Islamian described the band as "one of the most hard-core rock 'n' roll acts on earth."
Doctors said headbangers shouldn't be discouraged from enjoying their favorite bands.
"There are probably other higher risk events going on at rock concerts than headbanging," noted Dr. Colin Shieff, a neurosurgeon and trustee of the British brain injury advocacy group Headway. "Most people who go to music festivals and jump up and down while shaking their heads don't end up in the hands of a neurosurgeon."
Islamian agreed heavy metal fans shouldn't necessarily skip the headbanging.
"Rock 'n' roll will never die," he said. "Heavy metal fans should rock on."


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Seeking Suggestions
46 comments:
Here are two possibilities I came up withReplyDelete
The slight offensive pun option: psiontology/ists
Another: Paramentology
Noetic Physics?ReplyDelete
(I admit it: I stole the first half from White Wolf's Aeon Trinity).
- AnonymousMay 19, 2011 at 12:31 AM
Espers, eh? Esperology maybe, or esperologists. Definitely not Esperts.ReplyDelete
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Campbell (John W.) you say? How about Hieronymy?ReplyDelete
Another possibility: "paraphysics". It's the lesser used version of parapsychology, but it lets you emphasize the energy being controlled, leaving the mystery of the means to be discovered.
[I am presuming "esper" is a slang term from "ESP" and not the Latin term?]
... although I should point out that Campbell coined the term "psionics" for the study of psi.ReplyDelete
Psychomesmerism. Harkens back to old pulp with a nice pseudo-scientific prefix added on.ReplyDelete
Along the 'patapsychology lines, you could go back to the original ('pataphysics) or go with psychotronics, even though the latter now has another meaning relating to a kind of B-movie.ReplyDelete
WEIRD PSIENCE!ReplyDelete
What about telesthesiology?ReplyDelete
Psychometrics or Telepsychometrics. But you should totally go with psychotronics.ReplyDelete
Just imagine Patrick McGoohan saying it.
Meletology. The science of force.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2011 at 2:46 AM
*goes to the back of the big dictionary*ReplyDelete
wei- means 'vital force'
wer- means 'to percieve'
teu- means 'to pay atention to'
uper- means 'over'
ome- means 'to move with energy'
nous- means 'mind'
mregh-mo means 'brain'
gen- means 'to compress into a ball'
gene- means 'to give birth to'
wer-ome: 'To percieve to move with energy'
WEROME? like Genome
Metapsychology, or ever Super=psychology, in the same sense that Supernatural relates to natural.ReplyDelete
Especialism, Esperics, Esperic Sciences.
Or just maybe thelemology.
You could go with a milspeak contraction for remote sensing (remsens) or remote viewing (remvu) and wind up with a truly horrible chimaera like remvology.
Subdisciplines of ESP:
Espionage. After all, spies with psi will take over that particular field...ReplyDelete
I've been looking on and off at your blog for a while now - hope you don't mind collecting another follower!
- AnonymousMay 19, 2011 at 4:47 AM
THE SIENTISTS AREC ALLED HEADBANGERS...........AND THERE BIG CONVENSION IS THE HEAD-BANGERS BALL!!!!!!!1ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 19, 2011 at 6:02 AM
Well Parapsychology is the study of things outside of normal psychology but if ESP become an understood and repeatable demonstrable aspect of the sentient condition then it would no longer be "outside" so parapsychology would not be an appropriate term. How about something simple like "Psicology", "Psiology", or "Psiography". Books written about the subject could be "Psiographica" or perhaps definitive information could be found in a "Psiclopedia".ReplyDelete
If it were me, I'd use "Psychoenergetics" to refer to the branch of science.ReplyDelete
Talysman's suggestion of "Psychotronics" is too good to pass over though. I'd use that as more of a controversial philosophy/practice full of mental exercises, rituals, and/or bio-cyber enhancements, that supposedly hone the skills of budding adepts and awaken dormant abilities within mundane individuals.
I'd also go with psionics. It doesn't unnecessarily postulate a form of energy that may or may not exist in the setting, it's nice, simple, and direct.ReplyDelete
psionics (used regularly by a Campbellian author A Bertram Chandler) or perhaps Perceptology?ReplyDelete
Noetics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noetics "The theory of noetics centers around the idea that the human mind is capable of affecting work or events or even doing work in the physical world."ReplyDelete
"'Patapsychology? "ReplyDelete
By our Green Candle, we like it!
Too many -ologies. Go with some -metrics or even -graphies. More fun, less rigor.ReplyDelete
I'm not sure about the science, but I think all telepathic mind-speak should be Esperanto...ReplyDelete
thank you, I'll be here all week.
How about NEUROLOGISTS?ReplyDelete
These are the serious folks who for decades have been recording EEGs (Electro Encephalograms), interpreting them, and are now studying how to influence the brain with various waves (such as electromagnetic) to influence moods and eventualy transmit imagers. They HAVE achieved a noricxeable clinical effect. Not quite SciFi, but here it be.
It comes from the name of J. B. Rhine, a real-world researcher into ESP at the now defunct Duke Parapsychology Lab. I got the name from Stacy Horn's book, "Unbelievable."
I'll throw in a vote for the first name offered above, by Joshua: psychophysics.ReplyDelete
It sounds good, and it captures what you're talking about: the interaction of the mind with things outside of the mind (i.e. things in the physical world, including other people).
In real life, of course, psychophysics is concerned with only the physical sensory inputs to the brain and how they are subjectively perceived by the mind (e.g., why we perceive multiple different mixtures of light wavelengths as being the same colour). But in your fantasy setting, the field would be expanded to address physical effects of paranormal psychological phenomena. Even telepathy and other mind-to-mind effects would fall under this umbrella insofar as they are limited by physical distance, etc.
Of course, researchers of the non-physical aspects of mind-to-mind contact would probably have their own related field, "interpsychology". But these guys would be considered flaky pseudo-scientific weirdos by real, hard-core psychophysicists.
(Interpsychiatry would be a medical field interested in the therapeutic applications of interpsychic phenomena).
(Word verification: "conand", REH's ill-considered kid sidekick introduced in later unpublished Conan stories.)
Applied EsperonicsReplyDelete
Applied Psychotronics
Seconds for going with the -urgy suffix. Chirurgeons are awesome and have that great sense of being official while still not quite understanding what it is they're doing. Neurourgy. Psychurgy. Menturgy. Urgy!ReplyDelete
psychic, or maybe mentatic, engineering.ReplyDelete
Slightly retro suggests more of a retro-futurism, so I figured it should be more Science! and less Victorian.
Dianetics? Campbell liked that...ReplyDelete
I'm kidding, I'm kididng! :)
Metaphysics is too confusing. Why not Noetics?
- AnonymousMay 20, 2011 at 10:03 AM
Mentalitics, like gymnastics but the refinement of the mind.ReplyDelete
Hypermindology, even I don't like that one.
Meta-physics, words change their meaning and context all the time, it could be that person who coined the term for psionics used this one because he liked it and it stuck.
ExtraSensory Neurology, ESN for short.
PSIlogy - who says in the future they will have hokey names for things too. Future Anthropologists may yet ponder what why we eating Mac and whether the Obesity crisis was caused by too many people eating more and more people.
I really like psycophysics.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 25, 2011 at 11:57 PM
You can't use psychophysics; that's already used for the study of stimulus perception. I'd put in another vote for "psionics". Short, snappy, historically appropriate, widely understood.ReplyDelete


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Last year, the working group asked for such an extension, but the Advisory Committee could not come to any consensus on whether to grant it. W3C director and inventor of the Web Tim Berners-Lee last week voiced his support for the EME plan, but the future of EME and the working group's efforts are currently in limbo. Many of the arguments being made today mirror those made in 2013 when the working group first set about developing EME. And in light of this pending decision, we're resurfacing the op-ed below (from May 2013) that outlines the supporting view.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group that orchestrates the development of Web standards, has today published a Working Draft for Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), a framework that will allow the delivery of DRM-protected media through the browser without the use of plugins such as Flash or Silverlight.
EME does not specify any DRM scheme per se. Rather, it defines a set of APIs that allow JavaScript and HTML to interact with decryption/protection modules. These modules will tend to be platform-specific in one way or another and will contain the core DRM technology.
W3C Chief Executive Jeff Jaffe announced W3C's intention yesterday. This was met with a swift response from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), which tweeted, "Shame on the W3C: today's standards decision paves the way for DRM in the fabric of the open web."
The EFF, along with the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and various other groups, has campaigned against the development of the EME specification. They signed an open letter voicing their opposition and encouraged others to sign a petition against the spec.
The EFF argues that EME runs counter to the philosophy that "the Web needs to be a universal ecosystem that is based on open standards and fully implementable on equal terms by anyone, anywhere, without permission or negotiation." EME undermines the Web's compatibility by allowing sites to demand "specific proprietary third-party software or even special hardware and particular operating systems."
Further, the groups argue that the Web is moving away from proprietary, DRM-capable plugins. The EFF writes that "HTML5 was supposed to be better than Flash, and excluding DRM is exactly what would make it better," and the petition claims that "Flash and Silverlight are finally dying off."
As a practical matter, it's unlikely that the petition could ever be meaningful. Even if W3C decided to drop EME, there are enough important companies working on the spec—including Netflix, Google, and Microsoft—that a common platform will be built. The only difference is whether it happens under the W3C umbrella or merely as a de facto standard assembled by all the interested parties. Keeping it out of W3C might have been a moral victory, but its practical implications would sit between slim and none. It doesn't matter if browsers implement "W3C EME" or "non-W3C EME" if the technology and its capabilities are identical.
These groups are opposed to DRM on principle. The FSF brands systems that support DRM as "defective by design," and insofar as DRM can impede legally protected fair use of media, it has a point. There's a tension between DRM (itself legally protected courtesy of the DMCA) and permissions granted by copyright law.
However, it's not clear that EME does anything to exacerbate that situation. The users of EME—companies like Netflix—are today, right now, already streaming DRM-protected media. It's difficult to imagine that any content distributors that are currently distributing unprotected media are going to start using DRM merely because there's a W3C-approved framework for doing so.
The EME opponents' claim that Flash and Silverlight are dying off has an element of technical truth, but it's also disingenuous.
The technical truth? Silverlight has apparently ceased all development. Flash is still actively developed, with Adobe outlining a ten-year plan for its future development, but the company is also investing heavily in HTML5 tooling and is actively working to ensure that developers have the software to use HTML5 in situations that previously would have used Flash.
It's also true that Adobe has discontinued Flash on smartphones. As a result, there's a thriving market of Internet devices that can't use Flash or Silverlight at all. These currently represent only a minority of Internet-connected devices—about 89 percent of browsing is still done on PCs, and an overwhelming majority of them do have Flash installed—but it's a minority that's growing.
But the claim is disingenuous when used as an argument against DRM. Deprived of the ability to use browser plugins, protected content distributors are not, in general, switching to unprotected media. Instead, they're switching away from the Web entirely. Want to send DRM-protected video to an iPhone? "There's an app for that." Native applications on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Windows 8 can all implement DRM, with some platforms, such as Android and Windows 8, even offering various APIs and features to assist this.
In other words, the alternative to using DRM in browser plugins on the Web is not "abandoning DRM;" it's "abandoning the Web."
It's hard to see how this is in the Web's best interest. Mozilla, in particular, is fighting this very outcome. The underlying justification for its development of the Firefox OS smartphone platform is that it wants to ensure that the Web itself is the application platform and that software and services aren't locked away in a series of proprietary, platform-specific apps.
And yet it's precisely this outcome that opposition to EME will produce.
Moreover, a case could be made that EME will make it easier for content distributors to experiment with—and perhaps eventually switch to—DRM-free distribution.
Under the current model, whether it be DRM-capable browser plugins or DRM-capable apps, a content distributor such as Netflix has no reason to experiment with unprotected content. Users of the site's services are already using a DRM-capable platform, and they're unlikely to even notice if one or two videos (for example, one of the Netflix-produced broadcasts like House of Cards or the forthcoming Arrested Development episodes) are unprotected. It wouldn't make a difference to them.
That wouldn't be the case if Netflix used an HTML5 distribution platform built on top of EME. Some users won't have access to EME, either because their browsers don't support the specification at all, or because their platform doesn't have a suitable DRM module available, or because the DRM modules were explicitly disabled. However, every other aspect of the Netflix Web application could work in these browsers.
This kind of Netflix Web app would give Netflix a suitable testing ground for experimenting with unprotected content. This unprotected content would have greater reach and would be accessible to a set of users not normally able to use the protected content. It would provide a testing ground for a company like Netflix to prove that DRM is unnecessary and that by removing DRM, content owners would have greater market access and hence greater potential income. Granted, it might also come with the risk of prolific piracy and unauthorized redistribution, so it might serve only to justify the continued use of DRM.
With plugins and apps, there's no meaningful transition to a DRM-free world. There's no good way for distributors to test the waters and see if unprotected distribution is viable. With EME, there is. EME will keep content out of apps and on the Web, and it creates a stepping stone to a DRM-free world. That's not hurting the open Web—it's working to ensure its continued usefulness and relevance.


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Whether you were one of the millions of Black Friday shoppers in the U.S. last year, or you are joining in for the first time, being well organized is key. A good plan will help you prioritize and check items off your list. Here are six tips to seize big savings the day after Thanksgiving: Do your homework Start days before Black Friday, the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Jot down your gift list so you know what you need to purchase. Then take the very important step of determining your budget. Get a jump on sales by signing up for email alerts at your favorite retailers and liking their Facebook pages. Compare prices, products and deals Research the normal retail price of the items you want, the best sale price to date, then the best Black Friday advertised price at each store in your shopping area. Keep in mind the best deal isn't always on Black Friday. When it comes to comparing prices, the
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VINALHAVEN, Maine – Maine-based pop artist Robert Indiana plans to participate in a celebration of his art in countries across the world called International HOPE Day.
The artist is best known for his "LOVE" image, in which the L and a leaning O sit atop the V and the E. His 'HOPE' image follows a similar theme. It will be a part of installations and events in Munich, Caracas, Miami, New York City and Vinalhaven, Maine, on Sept. 13, his 86th birthday.
Indiana will make a public appearance outside his residence and studio on Vinalhaven Island on that day. There will be a large 'HOPE' sculpture installed for the event.


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I must admit that I was among those uninformed who just didn't get it.
Don't get me wrong. When it was first announced that the new Nationals Park would feature Ben's Chili Bowl among the restaurant concessions, I was pleased. I'd always wanted to pay a visit to the legendary Ben's, but despite best intentions, had yet to do so.
Plus, I figured anything we could call our own and help make Nationals Park a uniquely DC experience was a good thing.
Then I got my first glimpse of the famous Ben's half smoke chili dog on opening night, along with the horrific lines at the the Ben's Chili Bowl stand behind the 3rd base line, and thought this doesn't look that special, and certainly can't be worth the wait.
Well, let the record state that I am now officially a convert. I took a group of people
from my office to Nationals Park on a chilly May evening, and from our perch that night in section 418, I indulged in my first Ben's Chili Bowl half smoke (all the way, of course). Perhaps it was the altitude in the upper right field gallery, but I felt a little closer to heaven.
A Ben's Chili Bowl half smoke "all the way" (with chili, cheese, onions, and mustard) has been a staple of each subsequent visit to Nationals Park.
A word to the wise: If you're heading the the park an want to indulge yourself, don't be intimidated by the long lines at the Ben's Chili Bowl stand. You can get yourself an authentic Ben's half smoke at ANY "Nats Dogs" stand or cart throughout the stadium.
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Everyone is unique, and so are diet needs
Paleo. Vegan. Raw. Gluten-free. It seems as though some people have footnotes after their names, identifying the way in which they eat. Many of these folks are fanatical in asserting that their approach to food is the only way. They might have wonderful success stories of illnesses tamed through good nutrition or anecdotes of how much more energy they have now that they have given up a certain category of food.
All of this is well and good, and in many cases, wonderful. I have a few stories myself, and I am an ardent believer in good nutrition. But let's remember that our kids are listening. They hear us talk about how we gave up whole grains and beans to go Paleo. Or how potatoes make us fat. They hear us talk about rigid food plans that convey a message that whole categories of foods can be bad for us, or how strict food control is the only path toward health. This part is neither well nor good.
Everyone is different. Some people thrive on a raw diet, while others would fade away without cooked food. Some people prosper without meat and others require it for optimal health. There is an old proverb: "One man's meat is another man's poison." The technical name for this is bio-individuality, and it is an important factor to remember when deciding what to eat. We are each unique and have unique nutritional requirements. The foods that are best for you might not be best for your spouse, friend or child.
Active teenagers metabolize foods differently from, say, pregnant women or women in menopause. According to nutritional medicine expert William Walsh in his Web article "Biochemical Individuality and Nutrition," "Men eat differently than women, children eat differently than adults, and we all have very different preferences. Our personal tastes and inclinations, natural shapes and sizes, blood types, metabolic rates and genetic backgrounds influence what foods will and won't nourish us."
So instead of talking about the stringency of going carb-free, talk about how you have listened to your body and are discovering what makes you feel good and not so good. Teach your children to listen to their bodies, too. Explain that they might thrive on different foods from the ones you love. Point out that a stomachache, difficulty going to the bathroom, fatigue after a meal and skin problems could all be related to what they eat.
Learning to listen to their bodies, not someone else's dogma, is truly a life lesson for our children. It is a lesson much broader than food. Let's hope our kids are in tune with their bodies when it comes to sex, drugs, peer pressure and all of the other daunting things they will one day have to face. The younger they learn to trust themselves, the better.
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US intelligence services implanted bugging tools into cryptographic facsimile devices to intercept secret communications sent or received by the European Union's Washington, DC outpost, according to the latest leak from former National Security Agency staffer Edward Snowden. Technical details are scarce, but security experts reading between the lines say the program probably relies on an old-school style of espionage that parses electric currents, acoustic vibrations, and other subtle types of energy to reveal the contents of encrypted communications.
The bugging method was codenamed Dropmire, and it appears to rely on a device being "implanted on the Cryptofax at the EU embassy, DC," according to a 2007 document partially published Sunday by The Guardian. An image included in the document, presumably taken from a transmission traveling over a targeted device, showed highly distorted text that can just barely be read by the human eye as the letters "EC" followed by "NCN." The fax device was used to send cables between foreign affairs ministries and European capitals, according to Sunday's report.
The ability to approximate the plaintext message but not capture it as it appeared when fully decrypted likely means Dropmire didn't crack the precise algorithm or key used to encrypt the message. That—along with the detail about something being "implanted" in the fax device—has led to speculation that the program monitored electrical, mechanical, or acoustical energy emanating from the device to deduce clues about the plaintext messages being received. Such techniques fall under the umbrella term Tempest, which was coined more than three decades ago as an NSA tactic for reading sensitive communications relating to national security. More recently, Tempest has come to mean any investigation or analysis that uses so-called "compromising emanations" to reveal the contents of sensitive communications or lead to the decryption of encrypted data.
"Having done many experiments to eavesdrop on office equipment myself, the noisy image at the bottom third of the picture above looked instantly familiar," Markus Kuhn, a computer scientist and senior lecturer at Cambridge University, wrote in a blog post published Monday. "It is what you might get from listening with a radio receiver on the compromising emanations of a video signal of a page of text."
Three security experts Ars spoke with agreed with Kuhn's analysis. They said it makes a strong case that the attacks targeting the EU encrypted fax devices were relying on what's known as side-channel attacks, which target weaknesses in a specific cryptographic implementation rather than the underlying cipher or mathematics it's built on.
"It's breaking things that really have nothing to do with the cryptography itself," Justin Troutman, a cryptographer and independent security and privacy researcher, told Ars. He went on to say that the effort required on the part of US intelligence agents was likely justified when considering the intelligence value of the encrypted data. "I think the side-channel attacks are plausible, and I think the target warrants it. So even though it's speculation at this point, it's certainly a valid point within the realm of reason."
Side-channel attacks analyze subtle fluctuations in power drawn by a cryptographic device or slight differences in the amount of time it takes the device to complete certain tasks. The side data is then used to ferret out clues about the underlying plaintext or the key or algorithm that was used to encrypt it. In some cases, side-channel attacks can be used to recover the entire cleartext once enough clues are gathered. Other times, the technique reveals only partial contents of the message.
"One way I've seen other side-channel attacks work is once you convert a signal into a binary, you can hope that it's as easy as reading the data," Troutman explained. "There's going to be noise, so it may take other algorithms to parse through that noise and filter it out. But if you can get bits and pieces, a few letters here, a few letters there, over time you may be able to build a picture of what the conversation is about, or enough to at least identify what this communication channel is used for, or possibly even identify names attached to other projects."
Cryptographic device makers have known about side-channel attacks for decades and often work hard to prevent their wares from leaking clues that can compromise customers' encrypted messages. Hardened devices often use data "padding" to obscure the size of encrypted messages. Devices may also be programmed to ensure there's more uniformity in the amount of time it takes for different types of data to be encrypted or decrypted. They frequently encase cryptographic devices in protective shields that prevent them from leaking electric or other types of emanations that can be analyzed by an adversary. That being the case, how might US intelligence agents carry out a side-channel attack on an encrypted fax device belonging to the EU?
One possibility is to plant some sort of bug on or near a targeted device that captures compromising emanations and delivers them to intelligence agents for analysis. While the data intercepted by such a Tempest-style bug has clear disadvantages—namely, the crudeness of the data it intercepts—it might also be considerably easier to plant and harder for EU defenders to detect. By contrast, a more advanced bug secretly added to a fax device might be able to deliver a more reliable copy of the protected communication while being relatively easy for someone to spot. In some cases, the bug might not be anything that's added but, rather, something removed to permit leakage that wouldn't otherwise occur. The corruption in the image included with The Guardian article suggests the device was closer to the former.
"That the image is so distorted, and getting edges instead of content, indicates that it's something simple, such as adding a wire or removing wire, as the [Kuhn] article indicates," said Rob Graham, CEO of security consultancy Errata Security. "Adding a circuit board would be detectable, snipping a trace on a circuit board to enhance emanations wouldn't be."
It's also possible that the surveillance was conducted by using a bug to analyze radio frequency emissions only after the sensitive data had been decrypted and was in the process of being printed by the fax device. In 2009, for instance, researchers demonstrated two methods for eavesdropping on passwords and other sensitive data by exploiting vibrational patterns and electromagnetic pulses that emanate with every character entered into a computer.
"The laser printer of a fax machine certainly fits the profile and unless specific countermeasures are in place, it might be vulnerable to such eavesdropping techniques, which would not be mitigated by the encryption layer, as they target the end output of the printer," said Andrea Barisani, chief security engineer for Inverse Path and one of the researchers behind the 2009 demonstration. "Our company is often given the task to assess the interaction between physical electronics and software security of embedded devices such as printers and fax machines. In the vast majority of cases, all of the tested targets are vulnerable to software attacks, hardware attacks, or a combination of the two."
The lack of specific details in The Guardian article makes it impossible to know just how accurate speculation is that US intelligence services are launching Tempest-style attacks on its European allies. But based on the information available, it's not possible to rule out these James Bond-type of surveillance techniques either.
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